VLVL (6) Pynchon's parables

[Mike Weaver]

 > No reference to everyone selling out everyone else,

>Except, of course, where it says: "Friends of Hub's had sold out friends of
>Sasha's, and vice versa .... Everyone they knew had made up a different
>story .... " (81.7-25)
>
>Sasha's "[b]itter" about their "friends" -- "everyone they knew" -- all the
>"betrayal, destructiveness, cowardice, and lying" these "friends" indulged
>in, and the way they all kept trying to rewrite the script "to make each of
>them come out looking better and others worse." Active betrayals. By members
>of "the left".

You can only achieve the sense you want to make of it by altering the order 
of the statements on the page, by blending two distinct stages, the events 
themselves, (lines 7-13), and the mythologising which came after (lines 
14-25.) There is no reference whatsoever to everyone selling out everyone else.
Friends had sold out other friends (which means some not all) but all the 
participants had made up a different story. And Sasha's comments do relate 
to the rewriting of the events not the events themselves.



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